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City kids: The greenhouse effect

Connections are being made in Detroit classrooms between the science curriculum, growing and eating good foods, creating better nutritional habits that lead to healthier lifestyles. Melinda Clynes puts her garden gloves on for this report. 

Global Detroit: Welcoming immigrants equals economic impact

Our position on the value of courting greater numbers of immigrants to Michigan, this region and the city of Detroit is well-documented: welcome, please make yourselves a new home. In Dayton, a plan was hatched to organize such efforts. Sarah Szurpicki tells us how we can do the same here. 

Soup's on: We begin a monthly series stirred up by Detroit micro-grant funder

Detroit SOUP is on the move, first to a larger temporary space on E. Grand Blvd. for the group's next dinner and micro-funding event Feb. 12, and then to a permanent new home in Corktown in March. Coordinator Amy Kaherl shares her excitement.

Publisher's notebook: Detroit, celluloid city

Lights, camera and plenty of film and video action has publisher Claire Nelson going to screenings at museums and alternative retail spaces or finding the works on YouTube and Vimeo. Good thing for us she collected all the links and put them in this story. Enjoy the show. 

Critical FX: New column by AIA-Detroit president debuts

Frank Arvan says architectural criticism is an important part of improving the built environment. The longtime contributor to Model D, now president of the Detroit chapter of the American Institute of Architects says design creativity and energy adds up to urban quality and vitality. We agree. 

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Hamtramck is a 2.2-square-mile city within the city, packed with a population that is one of the region's most diverse and culturally unique, with strong influences from people with Polish, Bangledeshi, Arab and African American backgrounds, plus a large population of artists, hipsters and students. Come here for pierogi, garage rock, beer halls, street fairs, curry and shawarma, and all on the same day if you time it right.